Senior Product Safety Engineer

Job Title:                     Senior Product Safety Engineer

Location:                     Home working with travel to internal/external sites

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73867

At Babcock, we’re working together to create a safe and secure world. By joining us as a Senior Product Safety Engineer, you’ll play a vital role across a range of internal and external sites throughout the UK, including Tewkesbury, Corsham, Bordon and Bristol.

The Role

As a Senior Product Safety Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and compliance of our mission-critical systems, supporting both UK defence and export customers.

You will work on a variety of complex engineering projects, contributing to the development, assessment, and assurance of safety across the system lifecycle. Our projects cover strategic communications, tactical communications, weapon handling & launching systems and many more complex systems.

• Conduct safety assessments and risk analyses for systems and subsystems.


• Provide expert advice on safety engineering processes and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.


• Support the integration of safety into system design and development activities and participate in design reviews, audits, and safety working groups.


• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD clients, to ensure safety requirements are met.


• Develop and maintain Safety Case Reports, including supporting analyses such as Hazard Analysis and Functional Failure Analysis, ensuring compliance with relevant standards (e.g., DEF STAN 00-56).


• Detail understanding of hazard analysis and safety evaluation processes.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires flexible travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Senior Product Safety Engineer

• Familiarity with safety standards and legislation.


• Good verbal and written communication, analytical, problem-solving skills and stakeholder engagement skills.


• Experience in safety engineering within a high-integrity or regulated environment (e.g., defence, automotive, aerospace, rail or nuclear).

Qualifications for the Senior Product Safety Engineer

• Degree in Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually


• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 12/06/2026

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